Do you think any of the boys around here are cute, Evangeline? the weyrling queen asked innocently, tilting her wedge-shaped head to one side with a grin that showed all her sharp teeth.

Eva shrugged as she rubbed some oil into a dry spot on her gold's hide. "They're alright, I guess. None of them really for me. Why do you ask?"

Just wondering. I like the bronzes. They're soooo cute! And they like me, too.

The tiger-eared and -tailed girl laughed. "Of course they like you, silly. You're a gold. Why wouldn't they like you?"

Mmm...of course. Still, the attention's nice. Melonith purred in her rider's mind.

It's hard to believe that this place it closing down, the large gold sighed in her rider's mind, propping her metallic wedge-shaped head upon her forelegs. Her molten gold tail swished back and forth in the dust, making a fan pattern. Guess this means I'll never be able to fly and see my children hatch here. Rather sad, really.

"There'll be other places, Mel. Not this one...but others," Eva reassured her dragon as she leaned against the gold's flank, taking one last look at the place they'd spent three years of their lives at. Where there life together had begun. "But the question is...what do we do next?"

Melonith tilted her metallic head to one side, humming in her throat. I think perhaps we should go see your great-grandfather. He'll probably want to know all about your Impression and all about me!

Evangeline laughed, slapping the queen affectionately on the shoulder. "You have a point there, he will. So will Ro...and Faith, Nightmare, Mephibosheth... Watch out for Liojuth, though. He likes golds."

At this the young queen smirked, her tail promptly thwacking against the rock. As he should, of course... I wish that I could meet your mother, though. You met mine.

The young queenrider scowled. "I don't know if you'll ever be able to, Mel... With that witch Hieyiakana..."

Someone should do something. We should talk to your grandfather about it.

"You have a point... First things first! We join the fight that's been put off for far to long. THEN we go back to pickpocketing and ogling the boys."

The gold chuckled at this proposal, giving a wide draconian grin. Agreed!